**Date:** 1908
**Source:** Lenin Miscellany, vol. 26
**Pages:** 341–341

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bourgeoisie — landowners, financiers, factory owners — united against the petty bourgeoisie and the proletariat, to hail the monarchy.

... The insufficiently conscious proletariat, which followed in the wake of the bourgeois movement, was a welcome guest in bourgeois political society... The pure idea of a democratic republic becomes in contemporary society the political slogan of consistent democracy — the proletariat and in part the petty bourgeoisie.

The proletariat... struggles for such a form of government in which the interests of individual classes and groups would come to the fore openly and be taken into account according to their actual strength [and worth]...

... The proletariat does not see in the republic any [special] absolute good, any perfect form of government. It knows that the republic will not eliminate the exploitation of it by capital, will not eradicate poverty, need [disease], destitution...

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**EDITORIAL REVISION OF V. KARPINSKY'S ARTICLE "THE PEASANT MOVEMENT."**

**No. 11 of *Pravda*, August 9, 1908.**

**I. The Scale and Character of the Peasant Movement<sup>1</sup>**

...The legal press, despite all the abundance of information, does not report [perhaps even half] probably not even a third of all the facts...

<sup>1</sup> These words were written by Lenin as a subheading to the article. The Roman numeral "I" indicates that Lenin probably anticipated a series of articles by V. Karpinsky on the subject of the peasant movement.